The Importance of Work Experience before Joining Law School
Law school is a very, very serious investment of time and money. It takes some time in a work environment to...
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Degrees and Courses Outside Law School
Just as the world of legal practice has become ever more specialized, so too have law schools tried to offer...
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Career Services, Self-Assessment and Work Experience in the Legal Industry
It's extremely beneficial if a person has made some sort of self-assessment, looked inward and self-assessed...
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Important Legal Technicques: Cross-Examining a Lay Witness
Although counsel has no more deadly weapon than cross-examination, if his objectives are not carefully thought...
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Important Techniques: The Expert Witness
Cross-examination of an expert witness falls into a class of its own. An expert can and often does testify to...
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Deciding Whether to Cross-Examine and When Not to Object
When opposing counsel states, "You may cross- examine," the lawyer is faced with an important decision: Should...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing a Witness for Cross-Examination
Refreshing Recollection Just as it is important for the attorney to prepare to cross-examine adverse...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing the Lay Witness
Importance of Preparation "The issue of a cause rarely depends upon a speech and is but seldom even affected...
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Important Legal Techniques: Preparing the Expert Witness
Introduction In present-day trials the use of expert opinion as evidence is more and more common and...
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Main Objectives and Legal Bounds of Cross-Examination
Main Objectives Cross-examination should always be conducted with a specific objective in view. The Supreme...
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Witness Impeachment Probabilities in a Legal Setting
When cross-examination develops facts and circumstances that go to the credibility of the witness, it is...
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Historical Progress and Purposes of Legal Cross-Examination
Evolution of Right to Cross-Examination Right to Jury Trial To understand the art of cross-examination,...
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Common Tacticical Admonitions in Legal Cross-Examination
Questions to Avoid Of all the questions in the cross-examiner's vocabulary, none is more dangerous than...
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Investigating Prospective Jurors
Challenge for Cause In California, counsel is permitted to examine each prospective juror to determine...
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Proper Attitude and Appearance of Legal Counsel During Cross-Examination
First Impression Counsel's attitude and appearance are of the utmost importance in making his...
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The History and Uses of Legal Writs
From almost your first day of law school you will hear about writs. The writ was the first document filed in a...
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Where Do Legal Cases Originate?
The basis of the American law school system is what is known as the case method. In the case method selected...
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Historically Significant Cases that Served as Legal Turning Points
In order to give you background for modern law, you need to be exposed to old cases which established turning...
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The Significance of Common Law
American law has its roots in the law of England, and our legal system is known as Anglo-American law. When...
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Getting Justice without Adjudicators
When we hear the word "trial," most of us imagine a courtroom with a judge sitting on the bench and twelve...
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Strategies for Writing a Legal Brief
A brief is a formal, written argument, usually presented to an appellate court, for the purpose of convincing...
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Creating Worthwhile Legal Briefs
It always helps if you can find some relevant and unusual historical information to fit into a law review...
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Developing Skills For a Successful Legal Career
Just as successful law firms set goals and devise strategies to achieve them, new lawyers must ask...
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The Structure of a Summer Associate Program
Fitting into a firm is only half the battle. You must also learn how to master the more technical aspects, the...
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Tips for Being a Successful Summer Associate
Now that you have been through the grueling recruiting process and have found a home for the summer, you are...
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Responding to Summer Associate Job Offers
The climax of the recruiting season is when you finally hear from the firms you've been interviewing with...
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It's Time to Build Your Own Digital Legal-Expert System
By now, in 2013, and with law firms changing their natures of practice and of doing things, almost everyone in...
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Practicing How to Dress and Present Yourself for a Formal Professional Life
The way you dress conveys competence and your awareness of social protocols of the legal profession. However,...
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Law Students Need to Learn How to do Business
Law students need to learn how to do business, because the practice of law is professional service business,...
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Some Things You Can Start on Right Now as a Law Student
Everyone knows that the market for law graduates and lawyers in general is going through a bad patch, may be...
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